This course compliments and parallels DART6503. It takes a theoretical and aesthetic direction towards techniques of sound synthesis, interactive control and signal processing by examining how they operate in practice in contemporary computer music compositions and implementing these techniques and approaches in a practical outcome. In pursuing an understanding of the connection between these techniques and computer music composition, selected works from the past 40 years will be listened to and analysed.

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Through research and creative outcomes. Final project to be presented to the Viva Examination panel.

Research Essay and Presentation (50%), Final Project (50%)

All sessions are based in a computer laboratory:

3.5 hours of seminar / studio practice per week

Students are expected to do at least an extra 4 - 6 hours of independent studio practice each week

• Roads, Curtis. The Computer Music Tutorial, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1996.  
• Emmerson, Simon (ed). The Language of Electroacoustic Music, MacMillan Press, 1986.
• Cottle, David. Computer Music with Examples in SuperCollider 3, 2007. (Online)
• More extensive reading list available from lecturer